From forced conversion to genocide: How Yazidis carry centuries of persecution into exile
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Source: The Jerusalem Post
Published: 2026-07-19 03:33 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Middle East, Elections
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From his window in northern Syria, in a rural Kurdish area between Hasakah, Qamishli, and Amuda, “S” could still see the Sinjar Mountains in Iraq, the same mountains thousands of Yazidis fled through in 2014 to escape the mass killings, abductions, and rapes carried out as part of an Islamization campaign led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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